The Week in Review 48W2008
On Green Brilliancy, a non-profit bough an ad denouncing Panasonic bad recicling practices on the Times Square Panasonic huge display. More on green, Michelin is developing a in-wheel drivetrain for electric cars which means the transmission weight is gone and there’s actually better weight distribution across the chassis. Nice to see Michelin is not sitting on their collective hands waiting around for their business to die.
The single best feature of the iPhone platform for developers, being one single hw platform doesn’t seem to be holding up so well as iPhones/iPods vary greatly in 3D performance. On related touchphone news, the Nokia 5800 as finally gone on sale on some parts of the world and on expansys featuring a craptastic 550EUR pricetag which probably is good news for Nokia cause it means expansys actually believes some units will ship at that price.
While the PSP game sales are not too shabby, the DS game sales are astronomic. Basically, despite 0effort game piracy on the DS, DS users buy more games and each title sells more copies than on the PSP. People really love Nintendo.
Surprisingly, EU slapped France on the three strikes law. French ISPs and French ISP customers rejoice.
For lolz, the ISS compared to famous spaceships.
